Joel Brochu has made a sweet masterpiece. Or perhaps a masterpiece made of sweets.
The Canadian fine arts student, given a project to do on pointillism — the use of small, perfect dots of colour — decided to use tiny spherical candy sprinkles, the kind one usually sees on birthday cakes or ice cream cones.
The result is an incredibly lifelike portrait of a beagle getting a bath — at least from a distance. A close-up look reveals the tiny bits used to construct it, 221,184 in all. The portrait uses only red, orange, green, blue, black, and white.
A close-up of the beagle's muzzle
A computer-generated image, covered with double-sided sticky tape was used as a template. The sprinkles were then added, using jewellery tweezers and then overlaid with a thin layer of glue.
The work took just under eight months to complete, Brochu said. Once finished, it was permanently preserved with a clear acrylic resin.
O the patience of that artist!!!
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